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media mention November 6, 2014 Governing: Massachusetts Rolls Back Automatic Gas Tax Hike
And Massachusetts has plenty of company. The federal gas tax of 18.4 cents has been in place since 1993. Twenty-four states haven’t touched their gas tax rates in more than… -
media mention November 6, 2014 Bloomberg BNA: Will Massachusetts’ Rejection of Inflation-Adjusted Gas Tax Have Federal Implications?
States have varying gas tax rate structures, which can be boiled down to one of two general forms: a fixed-rate tax or a variable-rate tax. Flat-rate gas taxes, like those… -
media mention November 6, 2014 Windy City Times: Immigration Facts and Fictions
Unauthorized migrants pay sales taxes, property taxes, whether they rent or own, ‘use’ taxes, and, in some cases, even income taxes, whether state, local, or federal, including social security and… -
media mention November 3, 2014 LaCrosse Tribune: Act 10 Only Benefitted the Wealthy
According to the institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the wealthiest 1 percent realized an average income tax cut of $2,518, while those who lost a big chunk of their… -
media mention November 3, 2014 Memphis Daily News: Why Are Tennesseans so Afraid of an Income Tax?
Six of the nine state states without a state income tax – Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Washington, Alaska and Nevada – have had higher than average annual unemployment rates over the… -
media mention November 3, 2014 Stateline: Voters to Weigh Tax Caps, Increases
Massachusetts voters will get to decide whether to repeal a provision that automatically raises the state gasoline tax with inflation. According to the nonpartisanInstitute on Taxation and Economic Policy, 14 states… -
media mention November 3, 2014 24/7 Wall Street: Most and Least Friendly States for Business
Not all tax experts agree that The Tax Foundation’s description of what makes a good business tax climate fairly reflects the attractiveness of a state for companies. Speaking to 24/7… -
media mention October 28, 2014 Newsweek: Ultra-Conservative Experiments Are Put to the Test
The nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimates that the new North Carolina tax plan will cost the state over $1 billion this fiscal year compared to the past… -
media mention October 28, 2014 Winston Salem Journal: A Legislative Bad Decision That’s Looking Even Worse
And the numbers aren’t political spin. The current shortfall figures come from the Fiscal Research Division of the General Assembly. The estimate of how large the shortfall could become is… -
media mention October 28, 2014 Cleveland Plain Dealer: Repeal of the State Income Tax Would Harm Ohio on Several Levels
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a nonprofit Washington, D.C., research group with a model of the tax system, reviewed the effects of income tax repeal. It found that… -
media mention October 28, 2014 WBAA: Think Tank Questions Effort to Eliminate Business Personal Property Tax
Matt Gardner with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy says property taxes nationwide are increasingly limited to real property. But he says for equipment that has significant value to… -
media mention October 16, 2014 USA Today: Fact Checking the NC Senate Race
Meg Wiehe, state tax policy director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said that, based only on the income tax portion of the changes, about 35% of North… -
media mention October 10, 2014 New York Times: The State-by-State Revival of the Right
In an analysis of how the Indiana cuts are distributed by income groups, the liberal Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that the bottom 20 percent are getting an… -
media mention October 10, 2014 Lodi News Sentinel: Middle Class Is Paying for Corporate Tax Breaks
Further details of these types of corporate shenanigans can be found in the paper “Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy,” published in February 2014.… -
media mention October 10, 2014 Bloomberg BNA: Will Big Brother Soon Track Your Car for Tax Purposes?
All states impose some kind of gas tax that generally supports transportation infrastructure, but the taxes and fees that drivers actually pay make up a smaller share of total highway… -
media mention October 10, 2014 Politico: Fact Checking the NC Senate Race
Meg Wiehe, state tax policy director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said that, based only on the income tax portion of the changes, about 35 percent… -
media mention October 10, 2014 Governing: Will Mass. Repeal Gas Tax Hike?
Matthew Gardner, executive director of the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, notes that many states in recent years have gone down the same road as Massachusetts by linking… -
media mention October 7, 2014 Wisconsin State Journal: Analyses of Tax Mix Proposal Show Bigger Benefit for the Wealthy
The liberal Wisconsin Budget Project has released an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) showing how the tax burden would change for different income groups. Under… -
media mention October 6, 2014 New York Times: Apple’s Irish Luck
Here then is one difference between what transpires in the U.S. and what transpires in Europe: The E.U. has rules intended to prevent nations from giving unjustified tax breaks to… -
media mention October 6, 2014 Cronkite News: Unfair Arizona Tax System Unduly Burdens Poor Residents
Wallethub said its survey reached 1,050 people across gender, racial, income level and political lines. It compared what they saw as a fair state and local tax system with estimates… -
media mention October 3, 2014 Slate: The Kansas Miracle
In reality, however, Kansas’ job growth stagnated in 2012 and income growth fell. Far from a stimulus plan, Brownback’s tax cuts were a massive program of redistribution for the rich.… -
media mention October 3, 2014 Cleveland Plain Dealer: No-Income Tax States Use Other Taxes to Pay the Bills
“Some of these states have natural advantages, or man-made advantages, that most other states don’t have, said Matthew Gardner, the executive director of the nonpartisan Institute of Tax and Economic… -
media mention October 3, 2014 Cleveland Plain Dealer: Axing Ohio’s Income Tax
In 2011, the state of Florida spent $8,887 per-pupil, ranking it 38th among the states, according to a report by Governing magazine based on Census data. Ohio ranked 18th that… -
media mention September 30, 2014 Charlotte Observer: IRS Fights Ingersol-Rand over Offshore Money Routing
Ingersoll-Rand’s move to Bermuda helped kick off the first major wave of inversions more than a decade ago, said Rebecca Wilkins, senior counsel with the Institute on Taxation and Economic… -
media mention September 30, 2014 CNBC: Are Tax Holidays the Best Way to Promote Efficient Appliances?
And so when these weekends roll around, you either need to have opportune timing in the breakdown of your fridge, for instance, or enough money to afford the purchase of…